Renting books?????

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I was wondering if anyone still uses their textbooks after they graduate? I am thinking about renting my books online this semester but I am hesitant because I feel like if I do not have them down the road then I will for sure need them. What do you think is renting a good idea? I was thinking about renting my psych book and the med/surg II book. I know you all are so wonderful thanks for replying!!!!!

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Specializes in SDU, Tele.

I've heard its best not to rent nursing books. You will probably need them for reference in the future. But books for gen eds are ok to rent... :]

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Specializes in ER.

I bought all my books. I bought used when available. Here's the list of the books I kept:

Med/surg (definitely keep this one- you will use it no matter what specialty you end up in!)

Drug handbooks (again- will use this anywhere although anywhere you work should have the most current one)

Psych (just cause!)

OB/Peds (I kept this because I am planning on having children someday and would like it for reference during pregnancy)

It's really up to you to decide which books to rent or buy. My suggestion is buy and keep your med/surg book for sure and then keep any specialty books that you may want to work in some day.

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Specializes in NICU.

I bought all my texts, but the ones I took with me when I moved away from home were med/surg, maternity (I knew I wanted to go into some mother-baby-related specialty), and my drug and lab handbooks. I'd say get and keep the med/surg book, as it's the basis for so many areas of nursing, and good reference handbooks, and then go ahead and rent anything that you don't have any interest in pursuing down the road.

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Specializes in medsurg.

I would definitely keep the med/surg book I often need to look up stuff or just jog my memory. Keep the lab book also, the drug book a new one comes out every year and new, ways of administering old drugs so it would be a good idea to just rent a drug reference book, also sometimes pharmacy has the latest updates/warnings. But if your still in school buy the drug book.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I was wondering if anyone still uses their textbooks after they graduate? I am thinking about renting my books online this semester but I am hesitant because I feel like if I do not have them down the road then I will for sure need them. What do you think is renting a good idea? I was thinking about renting my psych book and the med/surg II book. I know you all are so wonderful thanks for replying!!!!!

*** Rent them if you can. You might (though unlikely) need your med-surg book to study for the NCLEX but after that you won't need it either. I have never seen a nursing unit that didn't have several text books for reference right on the unit.

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I intend to rent all the books I can (and have been for my prereq's) for a couple reasons:

1) my sister is a nurse in critical care, and she said not to bother keeping them

2) I am a lawyer, so have gone through a lot of schooling, and have never once wished I had kept a textbook. Laws constantly change, so relying on old texts can actually be harmful.

That being said - I am always open to changing my mind if it is, indeed, beneficial to keep the books.

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Specializes in IMCU.

I thought about renting and then just bought them cheaper online. I figure I want to be able to write/highlight or whatever on them. Plus I plan to keep them for reference.

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Sounds like a cool plan if you know u wouldn't need those books.Like I know the books that I would be keeping.Med/Surg definitely.

But how does one sign up to rent or even sell books.

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I get mine from www.chegg.com.

I seriously am amazed at how expensive books are, and how much money one can save by renting them. Also, they plant a tree for every book you rent, which I think is amusing. So, you know, you can save the planet and stuff too :)

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Specializes in Peds Hem, Onc, Med/Surg.

I bought mine from previous students and it was alot cheaper. I am glad I did keep them because now that I am in an RN-BSN program the books are pretty much the same. And it was only like my assessment book and my nursing diagnosis book. My other ones, peds and ob I am not going to use again. So they are just sitting there collecting dust. I don't even look stuff up in my med-surg book, when i have a question I go to the internet or ask on here. :D

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Specializes in labor and delivery.

I was so poor during nursing school I never bought a book. I either took them out of the library, borrowed or rented from Chegg. I have not regretted it. Info gets outdated, there are always books at the hospital and it's easier to look stuff up on the internet. Who wants to carry hundreds of pounds of books around? It worked out well for me.

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